fraud in law

1. 1.

   fraud that is presumed from the circumstances although the one who commits it need not have had any evil intent

   Broaderconstructive fraud

Questions about fraud in law

What does fraud in law mean?

fraud in law means "fraud that is presumed from the circumstances although the one who commits it need not have had any evil intent".

Is fraud in law a common word?

fraud in law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.